Goals Goals and Goals!!!!!

[Contributed by Sam #6]

ITS FALL NOW!!! Which means its time to start heading to tournaments and really get into ultimate. This means its time to start thinking about your goals for the upcoming season of ultimate, and the spring. As a team, we have had a goal for the last couple of seasons: Make Regionals. As we start our season, its also time for each of us to make our individual goals as well. For some of us that goal might be as simple as come to practice and improve at every practice, and some people might not even aspire that, but just want to play ultimate.

Now the question comes up, do any of your goals include making regionals this spring, or helping to build this team into a highly competitive team? If you are in this boat, and many of us claim to be, lets ask if your goals line up? Are your goals and actions this fall gonna help us make regionals? Now this brings up actions; they are entirely different than goals. Until you put action behind goals, they are just words, and words are not going to help us make regionals, or we would have by now. The work to make regionals needs to start this fall. If we wait until February or March to start buckling down and really putting forth an effort, it will be too late. The work to make our team into a competitive regional team needs to start in the fall.

So this is where I make my own suggestions to what you can do to improve and prevent another gnomes free regionals this year:

• "Optional Workouts" with your teammates. Results from those who have done these have been noticeable already, with only two or three workouts worth. So try and make Saturday afternoon workouts, and encourage people to come with you.
• Lift. Its simple. Its easy. Go to the dorms or the Rec. Lifting will help in so many ways. It'll help you get more power in your throws. Help get your body through tough weekends of tournaments and prevent injuries. Plus it'll help you get the ladies and look more like this guy.
• Throw a disc EVERYDAY.
• Learn the game in any way you can. Watch it on Youtube or Ultivillage, Read about it on blogs and websites, talk about it with your friends, ask questions (there are a bunch of very knowledgeable ultimate players on the team), and play play play as much as you can.
• Cuddle with Douglas. You'll be better at ultimate and life for it.
• And remember, come party time, don't be like the girl on the right, actually shotgun your beers.
• Also, get psyched for a beer mile. Where real winners are separated from the rest.

Now with these thoughts, go out and get better at ultimate and lets make regionals come series time. Get some work done, get some knowledge, and never, and I mean NEVER, forget.

GnoMEN go Bust a Nut!!!!